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$150 tuition hike approved
By ANDY MILLER Lditor
Tuition is going up again.
A $150 tuition hike was approved Jan.
26 by the Board of Trustees’ Finance and Budget Committee. The $5 per unit raise will become effective this June, according to Dr. Carl Franklin, vice president of financial affairs.
That means tuition for the 1970-71 school year will be $1,950, compared with this year’s $1,800. The last tuition hike—from $1,500 to the current $1,800 —became effective in the summer session of 1968.
The tuition hike is necessary, Dr. Franklin said, because USC is much more on a hand-to-mouth basis than other private universities with larger endowments.
In 1969, tuition and fees paid for 37 per cent of the university expenditures compared to 64 per cent in, 1949 and 47 per cent in 1959. Accordingly, gifts and grants have increased from 13 per cent
in 1949 to 29 per cent in 1959 to 41 per cent in 1969. Tuition was $480 per year in 1949 and $960 in 1959.
Endowment and investment income for the university was one per cent in 1949 and 1959, and increased to three per cent last year.
“Any institution with a low endowment is on a hand-to-mouth basis,” Dr. Franklin said. “Thank heavens for our alumni and friends, individuals and corporations who make gifts to us year after year in increasing numbers and in increasing amounts.”
Dr. Franklin said that the figures plainly tell the story. He compared the financial charts of USC to the 23 other private universities in the elite Association of American Universities, which elected USC to its membership in December.
“Before we used to compare ourselves to other private universities in the area— Occidental, Pomona—but now we focus on the AAU,” Dr. Franklin said.
On those charts, USC ranks 20th in average faculty compensation, 23rd in tuition and fees charged, 21st in endowment per student, and 15th in volumes in library.
“We're near the end of the parade in tuition,” Dr. Franklin said. “With our endowment we should be in the middle.”
For the financial statistics comparing the average faculty compensation, tuition and fees, endowment per student, and volumes in library of the 24 private in-situtions in the Association of American Universities, turn to page 5.
Dr. Franklin said that the tuition will go towards three purposes: faculty salary increases, additional faculty hirings, and library costs.
“We had to put tlie tuition increase in effect this summer because we had to augment summer school salaries,” Dr. Franklin said. “It’s the old matter of com-
petition. Other schools would have hired faculty members away from us.”
Along with raising tuition, the trustee committee also approved a second resolution which calls for yearly consideration of tuition, rather than the current three-year cycle of tuition hikes. Although a tuition hike will be considered annually, it will not necessarily be adopted.
The proposal to raise tuition originated in the Financial Affairs Committee, headed by Dr. Barthold Sorge, associate professor of finance. The two resolutions from the committee—calling for annual hikes and a hike of $5 per unit next year were sent to the University Senate, which transmitted them to the ASSC Executive Council.
After adding some riders to the proposals, the ASSC Council returned the resolutions to the senate, which approved one of the resolutions before they lost a quorum in their Jan. 21 meeting.
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 66 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1970
MRS. SEAVER, ARMSTRONG, AT SCIENCE CENTER
See page 6 for pictures and page 7 for story.
Photo by Frank Mazzi
Program changes begin; new system to be used
Drop and add begins in Physical Education 200 at 1 p.m. today and will continue through Saturday.
Students desiring a change of program will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
An innovation this year will be the maintenance of an up-to-date list of closed classes on an overhead projector in the gym, Mark Frazin. assistant registrar, said.
Hours will be from 1 to 7:30 p.m. today, and 8:30 a.m. lo 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Saturday is the last day students may change programs without penalty.
Frazin estimated that 4.000 change of programs will be made this week.
Western Center suit spurs threats, charges
By BERNARD BECK Assistant city editor
A suit brought by the Western Center on Law and Poverty, a legal services agency associated with the Law Center, has sparked a complex series of threats, charges and denials that involved Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis, President Norman Topping, Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law Center, and officials in Washington, D.C.
The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, charges Chief Davis and the Los Angeles Police Department with subjecting Negroes to a systematic pattern of conduct and custom consisting of acts of violence, brutality, surveillance, false arrest, harrassment, humiliation, and intimidation directed at Negroes solely because of their race.
The Western Center on Law and Poverty, formerly located at the USC Law Center; specializes in poverty and civil rights laws. Backed by the consortium of law schools at USC, Loyola, and UCLA, and funded by government grants, largely from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the center is staffed by lawyers from each of the law schools. Twelve members of the USC law faculty, as well as several law students, help staff the center and aid in conducting legal cases. USC administers the financial aspects of the center, but aside from this it is “an autonomous organization”, according to President Topping.
The controversy arose after Chief Davis wrote a letter to President Topping early in December. In this letter Davis discussed the use of the center’s stationery by the leader of ihe black militant group US, recently involved in a police action. Davis suggested to Topping a rewording of a statement on the center’s stationery which now reads: “Sponsored by the legal service programs and university law schools of Southern California”.
In the same letter, Davis discussed the proposed use by USC of city owned telecommunication facilities on Mt. Lee. Davis told Topping that “as soon as we are not in a position of being adversaries in a lawsuit, we should be able to resolve the problems of your use of Mt. Lee.”
Davis also asked Topping several questions about the center.
After receiving the letter, Topping consulted with Dean Nelson in order to answer Davis’ questions about the center. She in turn contacted members of the center to aid in answering the chief’s queries.
Dean Nelson said that a representative of the Western Center on Law and Poverty took a copy of the letter without her permission and introduced it into a court hearing.
Stanley Levy, then acting director of the center, said that he had seen Davis’ letter. He told a national advisory board in Washington investigating political pressures applied to legal services about the letter. He said that he had not made the contents cf the letter known, but understood that he could make reference to the letter. Levy had charged in a news conference in Washington Jan.
14 that there had been “attempted blackmail and extortion” on the part of the police and other government officials. However, in a later written statement made by Levy these charges were crossed out. *
The text of another letter from Chief Davis to President Topping written later in December, as well as the text of the first letter were then revealed by Davis. The second letter said in part, “This department expended appreciable effort under my direction when I was deputy chief in charge of the special crime force to protect your university students and to solve vicious rapes being committed in and around the USC campus. Regardless of the manner in which you have treated us, you will still continue to receive all of the police protection that your fine institution deserves.”
Dean Nelson felt that those who would charge that this was an attempt at blackmail or extortion had failed to take the letters in their proper context and had failed to consider the relationship that exists between the two men, Topping and Davis. She suggested that both were on friendly terms and that the letters were not in the context of a police chief writing to a university president.
Dean Nelson said that she did not feel that there was any problem of pressure on USC, but Stanley Levy took a different view.
Levy told of a recent difficulty in gaining the approval of the cost of printing a legal notice in regards to the suit against Davis in local newspapers. No difficulty had been encountered in questions of funds prior to the letters from Chief Davis. “I leave you to draw whatever inference you want,” Levy said.
Levy believes that the center’s suit against the LAPD on behalf of all Negroes had good chances of winning in court because it is a valid law suit. The suit has already withstood several motions in court indicating that the courts feel it to be valid.
Davis had stated that if the suit was won by the center it would pose a serious threat to law enforcement in Lcs Angeles, Levy said. Since the suit is aimed at alleged illegal practices by the police. Levy suggested that the implication is that effective law enforcement is illegal law enforcement.
The Daily Trojan learned that Dr. Topping had met with members of the law school faculty last week and assured them that funds would continue to be given to the center for an additional year; university support would be there.
The center will receive the firm support of the law school, said Dean Nelson yesterday. “I believe that things should be settled in the courts rather than on the streets.”
However, Levy believed that if he had not made the nature of the letter known in Washington. “I don’t think the Western Center on Law and Poverty would still be with the university. Those are the indications I have,” he said.

$150 tuition hike approved
By ANDY MILLER Lditor
Tuition is going up again.
A $150 tuition hike was approved Jan.
26 by the Board of Trustees’ Finance and Budget Committee. The $5 per unit raise will become effective this June, according to Dr. Carl Franklin, vice president of financial affairs.
That means tuition for the 1970-71 school year will be $1,950, compared with this year’s $1,800. The last tuition hike—from $1,500 to the current $1,800 —became effective in the summer session of 1968.
The tuition hike is necessary, Dr. Franklin said, because USC is much more on a hand-to-mouth basis than other private universities with larger endowments.
In 1969, tuition and fees paid for 37 per cent of the university expenditures compared to 64 per cent in, 1949 and 47 per cent in 1959. Accordingly, gifts and grants have increased from 13 per cent
in 1949 to 29 per cent in 1959 to 41 per cent in 1969. Tuition was $480 per year in 1949 and $960 in 1959.
Endowment and investment income for the university was one per cent in 1949 and 1959, and increased to three per cent last year.
“Any institution with a low endowment is on a hand-to-mouth basis,” Dr. Franklin said. “Thank heavens for our alumni and friends, individuals and corporations who make gifts to us year after year in increasing numbers and in increasing amounts.”
Dr. Franklin said that the figures plainly tell the story. He compared the financial charts of USC to the 23 other private universities in the elite Association of American Universities, which elected USC to its membership in December.
“Before we used to compare ourselves to other private universities in the area— Occidental, Pomona—but now we focus on the AAU,” Dr. Franklin said.
On those charts, USC ranks 20th in average faculty compensation, 23rd in tuition and fees charged, 21st in endowment per student, and 15th in volumes in library.
“We're near the end of the parade in tuition,” Dr. Franklin said. “With our endowment we should be in the middle.”
For the financial statistics comparing the average faculty compensation, tuition and fees, endowment per student, and volumes in library of the 24 private in-situtions in the Association of American Universities, turn to page 5.
Dr. Franklin said that the tuition will go towards three purposes: faculty salary increases, additional faculty hirings, and library costs.
“We had to put tlie tuition increase in effect this summer because we had to augment summer school salaries,” Dr. Franklin said. “It’s the old matter of com-
petition. Other schools would have hired faculty members away from us.”
Along with raising tuition, the trustee committee also approved a second resolution which calls for yearly consideration of tuition, rather than the current three-year cycle of tuition hikes. Although a tuition hike will be considered annually, it will not necessarily be adopted.
The proposal to raise tuition originated in the Financial Affairs Committee, headed by Dr. Barthold Sorge, associate professor of finance. The two resolutions from the committee—calling for annual hikes and a hike of $5 per unit next year were sent to the University Senate, which transmitted them to the ASSC Executive Council.
After adding some riders to the proposals, the ASSC Council returned the resolutions to the senate, which approved one of the resolutions before they lost a quorum in their Jan. 21 meeting.
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 66 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1970
MRS. SEAVER, ARMSTRONG, AT SCIENCE CENTER
See page 6 for pictures and page 7 for story.
Photo by Frank Mazzi
Program changes begin; new system to be used
Drop and add begins in Physical Education 200 at 1 p.m. today and will continue through Saturday.
Students desiring a change of program will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
An innovation this year will be the maintenance of an up-to-date list of closed classes on an overhead projector in the gym, Mark Frazin. assistant registrar, said.
Hours will be from 1 to 7:30 p.m. today, and 8:30 a.m. lo 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Saturday is the last day students may change programs without penalty.
Frazin estimated that 4.000 change of programs will be made this week.
Western Center suit spurs threats, charges
By BERNARD BECK Assistant city editor
A suit brought by the Western Center on Law and Poverty, a legal services agency associated with the Law Center, has sparked a complex series of threats, charges and denials that involved Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis, President Norman Topping, Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law Center, and officials in Washington, D.C.
The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, charges Chief Davis and the Los Angeles Police Department with subjecting Negroes to a systematic pattern of conduct and custom consisting of acts of violence, brutality, surveillance, false arrest, harrassment, humiliation, and intimidation directed at Negroes solely because of their race.
The Western Center on Law and Poverty, formerly located at the USC Law Center; specializes in poverty and civil rights laws. Backed by the consortium of law schools at USC, Loyola, and UCLA, and funded by government grants, largely from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the center is staffed by lawyers from each of the law schools. Twelve members of the USC law faculty, as well as several law students, help staff the center and aid in conducting legal cases. USC administers the financial aspects of the center, but aside from this it is “an autonomous organization”, according to President Topping.
The controversy arose after Chief Davis wrote a letter to President Topping early in December. In this letter Davis discussed the use of the center’s stationery by the leader of ihe black militant group US, recently involved in a police action. Davis suggested to Topping a rewording of a statement on the center’s stationery which now reads: “Sponsored by the legal service programs and university law schools of Southern California”.
In the same letter, Davis discussed the proposed use by USC of city owned telecommunication facilities on Mt. Lee. Davis told Topping that “as soon as we are not in a position of being adversaries in a lawsuit, we should be able to resolve the problems of your use of Mt. Lee.”
Davis also asked Topping several questions about the center.
After receiving the letter, Topping consulted with Dean Nelson in order to answer Davis’ questions about the center. She in turn contacted members of the center to aid in answering the chief’s queries.
Dean Nelson said that a representative of the Western Center on Law and Poverty took a copy of the letter without her permission and introduced it into a court hearing.
Stanley Levy, then acting director of the center, said that he had seen Davis’ letter. He told a national advisory board in Washington investigating political pressures applied to legal services about the letter. He said that he had not made the contents cf the letter known, but understood that he could make reference to the letter. Levy had charged in a news conference in Washington Jan.
14 that there had been “attempted blackmail and extortion” on the part of the police and other government officials. However, in a later written statement made by Levy these charges were crossed out. *
The text of another letter from Chief Davis to President Topping written later in December, as well as the text of the first letter were then revealed by Davis. The second letter said in part, “This department expended appreciable effort under my direction when I was deputy chief in charge of the special crime force to protect your university students and to solve vicious rapes being committed in and around the USC campus. Regardless of the manner in which you have treated us, you will still continue to receive all of the police protection that your fine institution deserves.”
Dean Nelson felt that those who would charge that this was an attempt at blackmail or extortion had failed to take the letters in their proper context and had failed to consider the relationship that exists between the two men, Topping and Davis. She suggested that both were on friendly terms and that the letters were not in the context of a police chief writing to a university president.
Dean Nelson said that she did not feel that there was any problem of pressure on USC, but Stanley Levy took a different view.
Levy told of a recent difficulty in gaining the approval of the cost of printing a legal notice in regards to the suit against Davis in local newspapers. No difficulty had been encountered in questions of funds prior to the letters from Chief Davis. “I leave you to draw whatever inference you want,” Levy said.
Levy believes that the center’s suit against the LAPD on behalf of all Negroes had good chances of winning in court because it is a valid law suit. The suit has already withstood several motions in court indicating that the courts feel it to be valid.
Davis had stated that if the suit was won by the center it would pose a serious threat to law enforcement in Lcs Angeles, Levy said. Since the suit is aimed at alleged illegal practices by the police. Levy suggested that the implication is that effective law enforcement is illegal law enforcement.
The Daily Trojan learned that Dr. Topping had met with members of the law school faculty last week and assured them that funds would continue to be given to the center for an additional year; university support would be there.
The center will receive the firm support of the law school, said Dean Nelson yesterday. “I believe that things should be settled in the courts rather than on the streets.”
However, Levy believed that if he had not made the nature of the letter known in Washington. “I don’t think the Western Center on Law and Poverty would still be with the university. Those are the indications I have,” he said.